Understanding the YouTube Search Engine
Disclaimer: This is in no means attempting to teach people how to abuse or manipulate how YouTube’s search engine works. This is for educational purposes only. This also does not intend to promote any specific party or defy any copyright claims. It’s surprising to see how fast the Internet community grew in a short span […]
Monetizing Snapchat
The world today revolves around how we appear virtually. Our daily lives are put online in the form of pictures, videos, and other media in order to allow others to keep up despite long distances, language barriers or other factors. With social media growing more and more as an integral part of our lives, the […]
How Google is Helping to Treat Autism
In this video, PBS reports on the progress made by the ambitious MSSNG project. The project is an unlikely collaboration between the Autism Speaks organization, the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, and Google with the goal of mapping the genomes of ten thousand people affected by autism and storing them in a useful database. Autism […]
Facebook increases its advertisement costs
Source: http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/28/technology/social/facebook-earnings/index.html Facebook has been trying to achieve its goal of connecting every person in the world for the past few years. It is a tough task but Facebook has made a huge progress by having a 13% increase in active users from 2014, and by making a huge profit from its advertisements, especially from mobile […]
Link Analysis in Law Enforcement
As link analysis has developed over time via the Web, certain link-analysis technologies have been created for helping law-enforcement and investigative services combat crime, notably in Boulder, Colorado and Kansas City, Missouri. In Boulder, a technology named Cellebrite’s Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), that contains link analysis software, assisted the police department by extracting data […]
“Spot” these PageRank Values
The popular music streaming service, Spotify has a relatively new feature called Discover Weekly that many users have come to love, so much in fact that social media blew up in panic when a bug delayed the release of the playlists a few weeks ago. Discover Weekly is a personalized playlist that is made specifically […]
Chemical Activity Through PageRank
While the PageRank algorithm has its claim to fame for its use in Google web searches, researchers have been finding a wide variety of applications for this method of link analysis. From bibliometrics, to medical research, to road network analysis, specified forms for PageRank seems to be in distinct facets of social and scientific life. One […]
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